diff --git a/distribution/all/src/main/release/bin/LICENSE b/distribution/all/src/main/release/bin/LICENSE
index 050b17c..20c00f7 100644
--- a/distribution/all/src/main/release/bin/LICENSE
+++ b/distribution/all/src/main/release/bin/LICENSE
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
  wink-client-1.2.0-incubating.jar
  wink-client-apache-httpclient-1.2.0-incubating.jar
  wink-server-1.2.0-incubating.jar 
- wss4j-1.5.1.jar
+ wss4j-1.5.11.jar
  xalan-2.7.0.jar
  xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar
  xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar
diff --git a/modules/binding-ws-runtime-axis2/pom.xml b/modules/binding-ws-runtime-axis2/pom.xml
index 2b73e59..e461d1b 100644
--- a/modules/binding-ws-runtime-axis2/pom.xml
+++ b/modules/binding-ws-runtime-axis2/pom.xml
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@
         </dependency> 
 
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>wss4j</groupId>
+            <groupId>org.apache.ws.security</groupId>
             <artifactId>wss4j</artifactId>
-            <version>1.5.1</version>
+            <version>1.5.11</version>
        </dependency>
 
         <!--  replace the Rampart xmlsec with the version Tuscany is using -->
diff --git a/testing/itest/ws/wspolicy/pom.xml b/testing/itest/ws/wspolicy/pom.xml
index 24fbf3b..b450d85 100644
--- a/testing/itest/ws/wspolicy/pom.xml
+++ b/testing/itest/ws/wspolicy/pom.xml
@@ -44,12 +44,6 @@
             <version>2.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
                 
-       <dependency>
-           <groupId>wss4j</groupId>
-           <artifactId>wss4j</artifactId>
-           <version>1.5.1</version>
-      </dependency>
-
       <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
            <artifactId>jetty</artifactId>